List of television operas

This is a list of operas specifically written for television performance.

Year of premiereComposedComposerOpera titleLibrettist and/or source(s)Television station
1951 Gian Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1953 Bohuslav Martinů The Marriage Bohuslav MartinůNBC
1953 Bohuslav Martinů What Men Live By Bohuslav MartinůNBC
1955 Lukas Foss Griffelkin Alastair ReidNBC
1956 Norman Dello Joio The Trial at Rouen Norman Dello JoioNBC
1956 Leonard Kastle The Swing Leonard KastleNBC
1956 Arthur Benjamin Mañana Caryl BrahmsBBC Television
1956 Malcolm Arnold The Open Window Sidney GilliatBBC Television
1957 Joan Trimble Blind Raftery Joan TrimbleBBC Television
1957 Stanley Hollingsworth La Grande Bretèche Stanley HollingsworthNBC
1959 Richard Arnell The Petrified Princess Richard ArnellBBC Television
1959 Guy Halahan The Spur of the Moment Guy HalahanBBC Television
1959 Gian Carlo Menotti Maria Golovin Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1959 Lee Hoiby Beatrice Marci NardiWAVE
1959 Ezra Laderman Sarah Clair RascomCBS
1959 Heinrich Sutermeister Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) Heinrich Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and PantagruelSchweizer Fernsehen
1959 Henk Badings Salto mortale Henk Badings and Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers)Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1959 Paul Angerer PasskontrolleORF
1960 Arthur Bliss Tobias and the Angel Christopher HassallBBC Television
1961 Leonard Kastle Deseret Anne Howard BaileyNBC
1961 Jean Prodromidès Les Perses (The Persians) Jean Prat, after AeschylusRTF
1962 Igor Stravinsky The Flood Robert CraftCBS
1962 Phyllis Tate Dark Pilgrimage Phyllis TateBBC Television
1962 Edwin Coleman A Christmas Carol Margaret Burns HarrisBBC Television
1962 Riccardo Malipiero Battono alla porta Dino BuzzatiRAI
1963 Ben McPeek The Bargain Ben McPeekCBC Television
1963 Gian Carlo Menotti Labyrinth Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1963 Carlisle Floyd The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair Carlisle FloydNCE
1963 Ton de Leeuw AlcesteEuripidesNederlandse Omroep Stichting
1964 Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville Heinrich Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville GhostMainz, ZDF
1965 Mark Bucci The Hero Mark BucciNational Educational Television
1965 Gian Carlo Menotti Martin's Lie Gian Carlo MenottiCBS
1966 R. Murray Schafer Loving R. Murray SchaferCBC Television
1967 Ezra Laderman The Trials of Galileo Joe DarionCBS
1967 Ingvar Lidholm Holländaren (The Dutchman)after August StrindbergSveriges Television
1967 Roman Vlad La fantarcaGiuseppe BertoRAI
1969 Heinrich Sutermeister La croisade des enfants (The Children's Crusade) Heinrich Sutermeister, after Marcel SchwobSion Sierre, TVR
1970 Jack Beeson My Heart's in the Highlands Jack BeesonPBS
1971 Heinrich SutermeisterDas Flaschenteufel Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle ImpMainz, ZDF
19711969-70 Benjamin Britten Owen Wingrave Myfanwy Piper, after Henry JamesBBC Two
1971 Ezra Laderman And David Wept Joe Darion, after the Biblical story: David and bathshebaCBS Television

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1973 John Eaton Myshkin Patrick Creagh after Dostoevsky's The Idiot PBS
1976 Godfrey Ridout The Lost Child John ReidCBC Television
1976 Raymond Pannell Aberfan Beverly PannellCBC Television
1991 Michael Nyman Letters, Riddles and Writs Jeremy Newson and Pat GavinBBC Television
2005 Judith Weir Armida Judith WeirChannel Four
2006 Jonathan Dove Man on the Moon Nicholas WrightChannel Four
2006 Alexina Louie Burnt Toast: 8 Mini Comic Operas About Love Dan RedicanCBC Television

References

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358889/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  2. ↑ http://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/ezra-laderman/

Sources

  • Jennifer Barnes (2003). Television Opera. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
  • Marcia Citron (2000). Opera on Screen. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  • Lionel Salter: Television, History, in Sadie, Stanley (ed) (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2. , vol. 4, p. 680.
  • Stephen C. Willis. "Opera composition". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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